“Advent Prayer In our secret yearnings we wait for your coming, and in our grinding despair we doubt that you will. And in this privileged place we are surrounded by witnesses who yearn more than do we and by those who despair more deeply than do we. Look upon your church and its pastors in this season of hope which runs so quickly to fatigue and in this season of yearning which becomes so easily quarrelsome. Give us the grace and the impatience to wait for your coming to the bottom of our toes, to the edges of our fingertips. We do not want our several worlds to end. Come in your power and come in your weakness in any case and make all things new. Amen.”
Quote by Walter Brueggemann
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Awed to Heaven, Rooted in Earth: Prayers of Walter Brueggemann
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Walter Brueggemann
Walter Brueggemann (born 1933) is a prominent American Old Testament scholar and theologian, renowned for his innovative theological interpretations of the Hebrew Bible. He served as Professor of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary in San Francisco. His influential work "The Prophetic Imagination" has become a classic in biblical theology, and his scholarship bridges critical biblical study with contemporary social justice concerns. more
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